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Post by Brendan Olszowy on Sept 26, 2007 10:34:37 GMT
I just had a thought. If someone just released a fully functional Jedi lightsabre on to the market. How much do you think the market would be willing to pay for one (USD each at retail)?   |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2007 13:06:16 GMT
ehhh? You mean wha? like a working lightsaber? as in: "cuts through everything, and then some"-lightsaber?  i'd pay "anything" for a real lightsaber  |
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Post by Brendan Olszowy on Sept 26, 2007 13:21:27 GMT
Yeah, purely fantasy. What would you pay? What is "anything" in cash. Would you sell all your worldly posessions to own one?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2007 13:45:03 GMT
For an actual, authentic lightsaber, I would sell pieces of myself.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2007 14:15:36 GMT
I would pay a enormously excessive amount of money for a real lightsaber.
Then I would use it to cut into a bank vault, and steal all my money back.
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Post by YlliwCir on Sept 26, 2007 16:03:01 GMT
I'm fairly certain I would hurt myself severly if I had an actual lightsaber. yeah, I'd still buy one. Hmmm cost? I can't even wrap my mind around what it would cost. Tho, if Ron Poeil made it, it'd be very affordable I'm sure. ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2007 16:15:56 GMT
The Ron Popeil instant lightsaber bagel cutter? Ron Popeil instant lightsaber cheese slicer? Ron Popeil instant limb cauterizer? ;D
Now only 5 easy payments of $1999.95!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2007 16:37:02 GMT
Figuring for the micro fusion generator so I never need batteries and the hard-light projector so its not just a short beam plasma cutter about... $17.8 mil for the standard plastic on off or $18.2 for the flashy metallic button.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2007 17:02:07 GMT
Atleast a few million would be the cheapest it could be bought for. I honestly don't know how much of a market there would be for it in the long run besides high end collectors :-P. Unless the Army decided to use it among its elite units until the price started going down :-P.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2007 5:46:07 GMT
The most I would be willing to pay is $299 Not a penny more  |
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Post by YlliwCir on Sept 29, 2007 9:49:47 GMT
Yeah, light sabers aint swords anyhow. Steel is for real!
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Post by Brendan Olszowy on Sept 29, 2007 16:16:20 GMT
I'll just take my lightsabres and go play over in the corner with the other trekkies then, eh?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2007 0:36:52 GMT
The idea of handling a real, functioning lightsaber scares the crap out of me. Considering you could roast off your whole hand at the lightest tough, I don't think I'd last long with one. I'd probably forget what I was holding and attempt to half-sword...  ;D |
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Post by YlliwCir on Sept 30, 2007 6:04:53 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2007 13:40:40 GMT
Is that the lightsabre from the first couple of movies - the one that wouldn't cut thru a metal handrail ? (Remember that duel on the catwalk between Vader and Luke where the lightsabres hit the handrail and give off a few sparks?) Or is it the Jedi wonder weapon that melts meter thick blast doors yet the heat given off by said melting blast door doesn't scorch the person holding the lightsabre? If given the choice between buying a lightsabre or one of those flying cars which would you buy?  |
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Post by rammstein on Sept 30, 2007 13:56:30 GMT
I'd choose the lightsaber.
The gov't would probably nuke my flying car. I must look like an irani invasian force.
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Post by Brendan Olszowy on Sept 30, 2007 14:03:04 GMT
I'd go the non handrail cutter. I may save burning down the house with that. However between that and the flying car? Hmmm. I'd only live about 30 seconds in either.
But the car would win in its practicality. I could be the getaway driver while darkintruder robs the bank. The lightsaber would be handy if your jet got 'clamped'.
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Post by YlliwCir on Sept 30, 2007 14:03:15 GMT
We already have flying cars. They are called airplanes. You know, those big metal cans we wait for hours on to go where we could have already drove our automobiles.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2007 19:22:15 GMT
Guess you only fly domestic (kinda hard to drive to visit my wife's family on the other side of the pacific). I would take the flying car (air speeder) over the lightsaber. Who needs to cut things up when you can go that fast.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2007 4:50:37 GMT
Nice observations of clear contradictions alant. I know the length of the light is adjustable. I suppose the intensity of the laser could also be adjustable. Metal cutting and non-metal cutting.
Here is an interesting question. How would you guys use a lightsaber? As a Longsword, a katana, a rapier, a small-sword, a spear, one-sided glaive, two-sided glaive, one-handed, two-handed? Perhaps double-lightsabers? Maybe I should start a poll?
I also got the impression form the last movie that a shield to defend against lightsabers is also possible (within the context of the the story of course). I'll take an anti-laser kite-shield and a one-handed lightsaber.
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